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Ellen Pezzei Reston...
Bignone took office vowing to return the country to civilian rule by March 1984. His choice of a Cabinet, nine civilians and only one military officer, appeared to offer some hope that he will abide by that promise. The lone military man, Army Major General Llamil Reston, who will be Interior Minister, shares Bignone's conviction that the armed forces must cooperate closely with labor and political leaders. Among the casualties of the reshuffle: Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez, an intellectual architect of the Falklands fiasco...
...among opinion leaders. Walter Cronkite said it "may be one of the most important works of recent years." Washington Post Columnist Mary McGrory said that the book was "working its way into the national psyche." Even journalists who disagreed with Schell's call for disarmament, like Columnist James Reston of the New York Times, treated the book with respect because of its import for the antinuclear movement...
...somewhat begrudged. Not so much cheers for his program or any adeptness in foreign policy, but for his capacity to stay personally popular and for his unexpected skill in having his way with Congress. "The applause from the audience at home and abroad has not been excessive," Columnist James Reston concludes...
...Reston of the New York Times has placed his rocking chair squarely in the center of the political spectrum. "The President is criticized for [his] amiable indifference," Reston wrote, "but it may be our hope for the next three years of his presidency." (In the same column Reston just as spongily described Menachem Begin as a "wonderful but bad-tempered old man.") Columnists do have days like that. A week later Reston was back on firmer ground. He found consolation in an Administration that is "more moderate than its words . . . For when he is confronted by the facts, he denies...